In 1995 he received an NEA Fellowship; that same year he
was told by Brigham Young University that if he continued to continue to
write fiction in the same vein as his first book, he would be fired
(discussed in the afterword to the reissued version of Altmann’s
Tongue). Instead, Evenson chose to leave of his own free will to
teach at Oklahoma State University where he taught for four years.
In 1999 he moved to University of Denver, where he was the Director of
Creative Writing.

He now teaches in the creative writing program at Brown
University.

"Brian Evenson, one of America's darkest and most
pungent comic writers, prods with the tip of his verbal knife at all our
assumptions regarding power, perversion and redemption." —Mary Caponegro

"There is not a more intense, prolific, or apocalyptic writer of fiction in America than Brian Evenson." —George Saunders

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